THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS at New Line Theatre

Dates: (6/1/2017 - 6/24/2017 )

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New Line Theatre

Washington University South Campus Theatre, 6501 Clayton Road
St. Louis,MO 63103

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Phone: 314-534-1111

Tickets: $10-25

Running Time: 2:30

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It's New York, 1952. After dark. Welcome to Broadway, the glamour and power capital of the universe. J.J. Hunsecker rules it all with his daily gossip column in the New York Globe, syndicated to sixty million readers across America. J.J. has the goods on everyone, from the President to the latest starlet. And everyone feeds J.J.'s appetite for scandal, from J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joseph McCarthy, down to a battalion of hungry press agents who attach their gossip to a client that J.J. might plug. When down-and-out press agent Sidney Falco tries to hitch his wagon to J.J., all while keeping secrets about his new client's relationship with J.J.'s sister, Sidney learns that you can become no one fast when J.J. turns on you. A Faustian moral nightmare, all set to a sizzling jazz score from the composer of the stage musicals A Chorus Line, They're Playing Out Song, Smile, The Goodbye Girl, and the film scores for The Sting, The Way We Were, Sophie's Choice, and many others..

New Line continues its 26th season with the local premiere of the fiery 2002 jazz-rock musical THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, by legendary film and stage composer Marvin Hamlisch (his last theatre score), lyricist Craig Carnelia, and Tony-winning playwright John Guare, based on the famous novel and film. The show was nominated for seven Tonys, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score, and eleven Drama Desk Awards.

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